Modern Fiction (post 1945)

The engrossing story of Amira, a young girl from a wealthy and powerful family, Mirage takes readers behind the veil of secrecy to expose the real lives of women in...

From the "fantastically funny" ( Elle ), "sharp" ( Salon ) author of the international bestseller Me and Mr. Darcy , an enchanting drive down the road not taken, in...

'..the face that stared at him through the glass was his mum's, but it didn't look like her. Stephen's mouth dropped open and real fear grabbed his stomach. His mum's...

An unconventional love story from the highly-acclaimed author of MELTING and THE DINNER Kathryn Cheet is not looking for love when she meets Craig Summer. Far from it. Kathryn is...

Iris Murdoch's first novel is set in a part of London where struggling writers rub shoulders with successful bookies, and film starlets with frantic philosophers. Its hero, Jake Donaghue, is...

The masterful, Pulitzer Prize-winning literary epic about the painful and complex realities of slave life on a Southern plantation. An utterly original exploration of race, trust and the cruel truths...

Two generations of an American family come of age - one before 9/11, one after - in this moving and original novel from the "intellectually restless, uniquely funny" (New York...

The first novel from Britain's most celebrated political commentator is a gleefully twisted take on what goes on behind the door of 10 Downing Street. It's September 2017, and the...

Ever wondered what it is like to work in a war zone? `We live more in one year than most people do in a lifetime,' is Danny Lowenstein's simple retort....

An explosive and daring novel about bodies, sex, politics and disability by the prize-winning Spanish writer Cristina Morales An explosive and daring novel about bodies, sex, politics and disability by...

Vintage Minis bring you the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us human - from birth to death and everything in between How do we love? With romance....

In frontier America, a man lives with a pregnant woman who is not his wife. When a stranger appears and advises him to register the baby as his own at...

There are certain friends with whom you don't have to pretend. Lou, a freelance journalist, leaves New York after the breakup of a long relationship. Taking refuge in Mim's North...

Bliss is a masterpiece of illusion that marked Peter Carey's brilliant debut as a novelist, and was later made into an award-winning film. The dilemma of Harry Joy is both...

Stories of sexy, steamy relationships have m ade Erica Spindler a firm favourite with readers of contempo rary romance. Following Red and Forbidden Fruit, Spindler pr oduces a chilling drama...

The thrilling new novel from the unforgettable author of Sunday Times bestseller Whatever Next? '[A] winning, well-plotted read... the mystery's denouement at the dance makes a glamorous and dramatic conclusion'...

'A return to Hislop's thyme-scented, Aegean-lapped fictional Greece' The Sunday Times Beloved author Victoria Hislop returns to Crete in this long-anticipated sequel to her multi-million-copy Number One bestseller, The Island...

Six-foot-eight and severely dyslexic, Brandon Vanderkool has always had an unusual perspective. He knows the mating calls of all the local owls, and can feel a flock of swans taking...

An extended family gathers in late August to celebrate the seventy fifth birthday of its formidable matriarch, Leonora. She is the daughter of the famous Edwardian painter Ethan Walsh, whose...

In his celebrated novel, Forrest Gump, Groom created a great American hero (Rima Firrone, Ocala Star-Banner), a lovable man for all ages. Now in a rollicking sequel, Forrest guides readers...

Poppy was about to be eighty, and to celebrate the birthday the whole of her family is gathering. Capable, bossy daughter Beryl, and her meek and mild husband Rodney, are...

Shortlisted for the Encore Award for best second novel. They were colour-supplement darlings of the 1980s: Patrick, the sexy, ferocious young playwright, scourge of an enthralled establishment, and Sara, who...

'Superb' a beautiful book glorying in great adventures of the human mind'' Le Point When Mr Ruche, a reclusive Parisian bookseller, receives a letter from a long lost friend in...

Imagine you give a dinner party and a friend of a friend brings a stranger to your house as his guest. He seems pleasant enough. Imagine that this stranger goes...

From the author of the bestselling, Booker-shortlisted A Fraction of the Whole comes a daring, brilliant work by one of our most original and fearless novelists 'Why should I let...

Critically acclaimed by reviewers across the country, Aoibheann Sweeney's beautifully written debut novel is a story of the profound human need for intimacy. For Miranda, the adolescence spent in her...

Set in post-apartheid South Africa, J. M. Coetzee's searing novel tells the story of David Lurie, a twice divorced, 52-year-old professor of communications and Romantic Poetry at Cape Technical University....

Everything Is Illuminated was winner of the Guardian Book of the Year and won the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction 2002. "An astonishing feat" THE TIMES A young man...

An international bestseller and French publishing sensation Consolation is a dazzling, heartbreaking tale of one man, two remarkable women and an unforgettable transvestite.Charles Balanda is forty-seven; a successful architect, he...

It's not easy for Chrysalis Moffat to tell the story of her life. The more closely she tries to set down the facts, the more she finds herself doubting them....

This is a family story about the quest for happiness...and about sex, greed, gluttony and revenge. Meet the Rileys: Dermott: he is obsessed with developing and marketing his contraceptive device,...

Abbott Elementary meets Ali Hazelwood in this spicy rivals-to-lovers rom-com starring two kindergarten teachers whose one night stand leads to an unexpected nine-month lesson in love. Quirky, free-spirited Valerie Marquez...

"This powerful novel should join classics like Ernest J. Gaines's The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman , Helena Maria Viramontes's Under the Feet of Jesus , and Harper Lee's To...

A hilarious and heartwarming read perfect for fans of Judy Leigh, Caroline James and Maddie Please! As Margaret Adams buries her late husband she comes to a shocking realisation -...

'Luminously written ... page-turningly enjoyable, this is a profound novel about love from a highly regarded, Pulitzer-winning novelist' Sunday Times Walking through Central Park, Barrett Meeks sees a translucent light...

A dazzling urban satire of modern relationships? An ironic, tragic insight into the demise of the nuclear family? Or the confused ramblings of a pissed thirty-something? Two diaries, two enduring...

With GLOW, Ned Beauman has reinvented the international conspiracy thriller for a new generation. A hostage exchange outside a police station in Pakistan. A botched defection in an airport hotel...

A award-winning, psychological post-Cold War novel-adapted as a TNT series starring Sean Bean-Legends is the next blockbuster spy novel from Robert Littell. Martin Odum is a onetime CIA field agent...

It's been two years since disgraced Illinois governor Ray Perry disappeared from a federal courthouse in Chicago moments after being sentenced to thirty-eight years in prison on corruption charges. PI...

When Rachel is pregnant with Lola, she imagines motherhood will involve pushing her sleeping infant in a pram through sun-dappled parks, suffused with the purest love she has ever felt....

"Janet Kelly's 'The Colour of Walls' is a novel of incest and a woman who takes responsibility for her family through barely imaginable injustice and adversity... It describes the aftermath...

An utterly original and compelling novel from "one of our living masters ( McSweeney's ), originally published in 1998 and now re-issued by Grove with a new introduction--a conversation between...

Alice McDermott's masterful novel is a portrait of a working-class American family living through the tumultuous middle decades of the twentieth century. While Michael and Annie Keane taste the alternately...

Fate, in the form of tragedy, has finally caught up with Saira Qader - a free-spirited and rebellious Muslim-American of Indo-Pakistani descent - who finds herself caught in a struggle...